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Activities To Go With Jan Brett's Story The Mitten

1-2-3 Come Read The Mitten and Do Mitten Craftivities With Me!

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A huge thank you to Jan for all of the great ideas on her site: janbrett.com  If you haven't browsed through her site, it's a must see. 

She has all sorts of information about her books, along with lots of activities and graphics to go with them.  jan brett activities, activities to go with The Mitten, activities to go with The Hat, venn diagram templates, venn diagram for The Mitten, mitten activities, mitten crafts, ordinal number activities, mitten writing prompts, rhyming actvitities, daily 5 for winter, verb activities, January writing prompts

Since The Mitten is such a popular story with teachers, I decided to design some things to go along with it. 

The Mitten Activity packet is chock full of all sorts of fun "stuff"  and includes:

  • jan brett activities, activities to go with The Mitten, activities to go with The Hat, venn diagram templates, venn diagram for The Mitten, mitten activities, mitten crafts, ordinal number activities, mitten writing prompts, rhyming actvitities, daily 5 for winter, verb activities, January writing promptsMove Over Please, So I Won't Freeze easy reader booklet, which reinforces lots of Common Core, especially ordinal numbers and verbs. 

Students underline the verbs, circle the capital letters, add end punctuation, trace and write the animal character's name, his ordinal position and an action word (verb) associated with him, then cut & glue the matching animal picture in the box.

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and a Mitten Matching card game, where students match the animal character to the animal's name, or the ordinal number position it had in the story, or all three:

i.e. the word bear, picture of the bear, ordinal number-card 7th-seventh

 There's an jan brett activities, activities to go with The Mitten, activities to go with The Hat, venn diagram templates, venn diagram for The Mitten, mitten activities, mitten crafts, ordinal number activities, mitten writing prompts, rhyming actvitities, daily 5 for winter, verb activities, ordinal number activities,January writing promptsOrdinal number character assessment strip with answer key.

  • + 2 graphing activities
  • 2 mitten writing prompts
  • jan brett activities, activities to go with The Mitten, activities to go with The Hat, venn diagram templates, venn diagram for The Mitten, mitten activities, mitten crafts, ordinal number activities, mitten writing prompts, rhyming actvitities, daily 5 for winter, verb activities, ordinal number activities, January writing promptsand several mitten worksheets, including one that covers rhyming words + more verb-work. (Great for Daily 5 activities.) and finally,
  • A certificate of praise bookmark that can be used to play another game.

Click on the link to view/download the Activities To Go With Jan Brett's The Mitten packet.

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jan brett activities, activities to go with The Mitten, activities to go with The Hat, venn diagram templates, venn diagram for The Mitten, mitten activities, mitten crafts, ordinal number activities, mitten writing prompts, rhyming actvitities, daily 5 for winter, verb activities, ordinal number activities,January writing promptsChildren can compare a mitten to a glove, or The Mitten story to Jan Brett's companion story The Hat; an equally adorable tale, featuring even more animal characters. 

There's also a Venn diagram to compare 2 animal characters.  Click on the link to view/download The Mitten Venn Diagrams.

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